A Louth Lilt

What have natural disasters, electronic invention kits, vertical farming, and song writing got in common? Confused? Throw into the mix the exploits of British astrophysicist Sir Arthur Stanley Addington and one Albert Einstein and you might be forgiven for raising an eyebrow or two. Yet, the former were the themes under which students from third-level colleges from Norway, Belgium, and Ireland conducted a series of workshops that opened an audience’s eyes and ears to the wond

There was no December decrescendo as the roll over from November and the high of The Gap of the North to close the month was continued with another month of exciting musical activity, kicked off immediately by the visit of members of Ceolta Sí and Lár na Cruinne to Co. Louth. Staying at An Grianán in Termonfeckin, Daithí facilitated a workshop there with them on the Friday evening, revisiting material from previous workshops and introducing some new material that may become p

Flying in, we could see the coastline and observe the geometric patterns in the landscape. Fields bounded by water, lined for crops. As we travelled by train and bus, we got another perspective on this carefully planned and well-maintained landscape. Mother nature carefully shackled but her beauty evident, particularly in the rows of daffodils. Some had escaped to provide little yellow dashes in the ditches and hedgerows along the little rural road that we walked on our way t